Female Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

[Glenn Romain]

Heres another Rose-Breasted this time a female ,they are quite shy compared to the males it took about a week before they started coming to my feeder.

D80 300mm F4 with a 1.4X Kenko extender.

F/4,5
1/1250sec
Iso 400
AWB

[Lance Peters]

Hi Glenn - sharp as a tack - like the pose, Good HA and eye contact and exposure looks good.
Would just lighten the eye and sharpen - you will get more detail out if it - with the iris being more visible.

Not crazy about the OOF area of the perch - but not much you could do about that.
Good show!!

[Alfred Forns]

Fully agree with Lance on all points but you did come up with one nice image. Sharp lens converter combo !!! Was this tripod or hh !!! Excellent !!!

[Harold Davis]

sharp and nice!! agree with the others on all points. nice job!!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Sharp as a tack Glenn. Great HA and monotone BG. Well done.

[denise ippolito]

Glenn, Nice image-I like the pose and sharp details well done!

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Glenn,
I like the composition, image and capture...I like the sharp fine details, the head angle and clear eye...The background compliments your subject quite well...:cool:

[Glenn Romain]

Lance i see what you mean about the OOF area of the perch , im gonna have to try and setup some perches to eliminate this .

Alfred it was HH with some side support from my deck :)

Jackie ,Harold, Denise, Gus thanks for your coments they are appreciated . Im really loving this new to me old lens even with the 1.4 TC . But it sure is heavy compared to what im use to .:)

[Randy Stout]

Glenn:
Agree with the other folks. I have posted a few of the female grosbeaks, and am quite fond of them.

I think if you cropped the image tighter and got rid a lot of the extra canvas at top, the out of focus perch would be much less bothersome.


I had a female that I cloned out the perch extending out of her back. It looked clean, but a bit fake, so try the simple thing first.

Randy

[Glenn Romain]

Thanks for the input and info Randy :)